The painting “Urban Winter Landscape” from the permanent exhibition of the Glazov Museum of Local Lore was created by the Glazov artist Pyotr Mikhailovich Kvyatkovsky. The early 20th–century canvas shows how the town of Glazov looked more than a hundred years ago. It captures the view from Nikolskaya Street, its current name is Molodaya Gvardiya Street. The wooden buildings and fences which are painted on the canvas have not been preserved. The painting shows a two-story stone building which was the former Glazov Town School. It is an object of cultural and historical significance of the Udmurt Republic.
The sturdy stone house was built in the early 19th century on Kruglo-Voznesenskaya Street, and in 1840 it was purchased for the District Zemsky School. It taught Divine law, reading and writing, Russian and Church Slavonic languages. The school offered lessons in arithmetic, practical geometry, world history, geography, physics, technical and creative drawing. In 1896, the Zemsky School was renamed the Town School to promote the handicraft industry in the county. It opened courses in carpentry, blacksmithing, shoemaking and tailoring.
Many prominent statesmen were educated at the Glazov District School: the revolutionary Yefim Adrianovich Babushkin, who began his career as secretary of the Bolshevik Club in Paris, which included Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and later was appointed Consul General of the RSFSR in Persia; the People’s Commissar of Social Security Joseph Alekseyevich Nagovitsyn; the first publisher of Maxim Gorky’s works Alexander Petrovich Charushnikov.
Pyotr Kvyatkovsky who created this painting was the grandson of the Glazov merchant of the second guild, Pyotr Fyodorovich Vasiliev, the founder of a vodka factory. Pyotr Kvyatkovsky was born around 1880 in Glazov, lived in a wooden house on Permskaya Street, presently it is Tolstoy Street. Pyotr Mikhailovich’s wife was from another well-known merchant family in Glazov — the Gyrdymovs. Pyotr Kvyatkovsky did not have professional training in art, but drawing was always his favorite pastime. In addition to the painting “Urban Winter Landscape”, the collection of the Glazov Museum of Local Lore includes another work by Pyotr Kvyatkovsky “Crossing the Cheptsa”.
The sturdy stone house was built in the early 19th century on Kruglo-Voznesenskaya Street, and in 1840 it was purchased for the District Zemsky School. It taught Divine law, reading and writing, Russian and Church Slavonic languages. The school offered lessons in arithmetic, practical geometry, world history, geography, physics, technical and creative drawing. In 1896, the Zemsky School was renamed the Town School to promote the handicraft industry in the county. It opened courses in carpentry, blacksmithing, shoemaking and tailoring.
Many prominent statesmen were educated at the Glazov District School: the revolutionary Yefim Adrianovich Babushkin, who began his career as secretary of the Bolshevik Club in Paris, which included Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, and later was appointed Consul General of the RSFSR in Persia; the People’s Commissar of Social Security Joseph Alekseyevich Nagovitsyn; the first publisher of Maxim Gorky’s works Alexander Petrovich Charushnikov.
Pyotr Kvyatkovsky who created this painting was the grandson of the Glazov merchant of the second guild, Pyotr Fyodorovich Vasiliev, the founder of a vodka factory. Pyotr Kvyatkovsky was born around 1880 in Glazov, lived in a wooden house on Permskaya Street, presently it is Tolstoy Street. Pyotr Mikhailovich’s wife was from another well-known merchant family in Glazov — the Gyrdymovs. Pyotr Kvyatkovsky did not have professional training in art, but drawing was always his favorite pastime. In addition to the painting “Urban Winter Landscape”, the collection of the Glazov Museum of Local Lore includes another work by Pyotr Kvyatkovsky “Crossing the Cheptsa”.
